Alethinophidia

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Common names: advanced snakes.

The Alethinophidia are an infraorder of snakes that includes all snakes other than blind snakes and thread snakes. Currently, 15 families are recognized, including 9 subfamilies and 316 genera.^[1]

Family: Acrochordidae Bonaparte, 1831 -- wart snakes
Family: Aniliidae Stejneger, 1907 -- false coral snakes
Family: Anomochilidae Cundall, Wallach and Rossman, 1993 -- dwarf pipe snakes
Family: Atractaspididae Günther, 1858 -- African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes
Family: Boidae Gray, 1825 -- boas
- Subfamily: Boinae Gray, 1825 -- boas
- Subfamily: Erycinae Bonaparte, 1831 -- Old World sand boas
Family: Bolyeriidae Hoffstetter, 1946 -- Mauritius snakes
Family: Colubridae Oppel, 1811 -- colubrids, typical snakes
- Subfamily: Homalopsinae Günther, 1864
- Subfamily: Natricinae Bonaparte, 1838
- Subfamily: Xenodontinae Cope, 1895
Family: Cylindrophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 -- Asian pipe snakes
Family: Elapidae F. Boie, 1827 -- cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes
Family: Loxocemidae Cope, 1861 -- Mexican pythons
Family: Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826 -- pythons
Family: Tropidophiidae Brongersma, 1951 -- dwarf boas
Family: Uropeltidae Müller, 1832 -- pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes
Family: Viperidae Oppel, 1811 -- vipers, pitvipers
- Subfamily: Azemiopinae Liem, Marx and Rabb, 1971 -- Fae's viper
- Subfamily: Causinae Cope, 1859 -- night adders
- Subfamily: Crotalinae Oppel, 1811 -- pitvipers, rattlesnakes
- Subfamily: Viperinae Oppel, 1811 -- pitless vipers, true vipers
Family: Xenopeltidae Bonaparte, 1845 -- sunbeam snakes
Family: †Nigerophiidae

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